Teesside University

Research Areas & Focuses

1. Biofilms destabilisation by charged lipids liposomes
2. Biofilms pearmeant liposomes delivering bioactive molecules
3. Biofilms detection/tagging
4. Biofilms dignostics and imaging (including confocal microscopy)
5. Biofilms/bacterial sequencing
6. Biofilms data analysis and method development, including machine learning and multi-species metabolic modelling of biofilms
7. Prediction of the optimal growth conditions for microbial communities
8. Mechanistic interpretation of metabolic functions in biofilms
9. Biofilms imaging using Raman and mass spectroscopy
10. Biofilms microbiology and signalling (environmental and medical)
11. Biofilm production and colonisation studies of oral and enteric pathogens
12. Biofilm quantitation and disruption using inhibitor compounds

Department Link

School of Health and Life Sciences

National Horizons Centre